— California is effectively a one-party, Democratic state now, since our Republican faithful have adopted the position that it’s better to be right on the moral issues than successful at the ballot box. This has been evident in the choice of a string of hardcore pro-life party chairmen, and in the reaction of the faithful to Dick Riordan’s candidacy for governor:
Riordan is raising much more cash than Jones or Simon and leads the polls, but he is under heavy attack from some party stalwarts. Last week, former California governor George Deukmejian, an influential Republican in the state, took the extraordinary step of saying publicly that he had “no respect” for Riordan.
This deadly purity of essence makes the Dems who can bring themselves to support Davis, for all his warts, look almost bright.
Link: California GOP Reluctant to Rally Behind Riordan (washingtonpost.com)